Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and its Legacy
by Kuznar,Lawrence A.Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2008-01-30
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book accessibly analyzes Harris's theories and their important legacies today. The chapters explore cultural materialism's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures. The authors assess recent attempts to extend and reformulate cultural materialism and highlight cross-cultural, archaeological, and ethnographic applications of cultural materialism today.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| List of Contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction: The Potentials and Challenges of Cultural Materialism | p. 1 |
| The Legacy of Cultural Materialism: I | |
| The Impact of Cultural Materialism: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Writings of Marvin Harris | p. 20 |
| The Theoretical Legacies of Cultural Materialism and Marvin Harris | p. 56 |
| The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism | |
| Cultural Materialism, Scientific Anthropology, Epistemology, and "Narrative Ethnographies of the Particular" | p. 66 |
| Cultural Materialism, Rational Choice, and the Problem of General Ethnography: Marvin Harris and the Struggle for Science in Anthropology | p. 78 |
| Applications of Cultural Materialism | |
| Materialist Particularity in Nuclear Micronesia: A Pre-Postmodernist Theory of Cultural Evolution | p. 104 |
| Linking Past and Present: Cultural Materialism, Archaeology, and the Medieval Transition in the Aegean | p. 128 |
| Effects of the Physical and Social Environment on Culture: Results of Cross-Cultural Tests | p. 153 |
| The Darwinian Challenge to Cultural Materialism | |
| The Effect of Nepotism on the Evolution of Social Inequality | p. 168 |
| Coevolutionary Materialism | p. 180 |
| Marvin Harris, Meet Charles Darwin: A Critical Evaluation and Theoretical Extension of Cultural Materialism | p. 194 |
| The Legacy of Cultural Materialism: II | |
| What Role Does Population Pressure Play in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Marvin Harris? | p. 230 |
| Evolutionary Materialism and Darwinian Conflict Theory: A Critical Analysis of Stephen Sanderson's Extensions of Cultural Materialism | p. 238 |
| When Is a Theoretical Strategy Not Cultural Materialism? Comments on Kennedy's Critique of Evolutionary Materialism and Darwinian Conflict Theory | p. 256 |
| Requiscat in Pace-Obituaries of Marvin Harris "Marvin Harris, 74, Is Dead; Professor Was Iconoclast of Anthropologists" | p. 261 |
| "Marvin Harris (1927-2001)" | p. 263 |
| Selected Other Obituaries of Marvin Harris | p. 268 |
| Bibliography of Marvin Harris, 1952-2001 | p. 269 |
| References | p. 285 |
| Index | p. 313 |
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